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Saturday, May 17, 2008

In his his book,“Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation,” Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia, laments that “international comparisons rank the United States a stunningly unimpressive eighteenth for high school graduation rates, a lackluster ranking of fifteenth for high school reading assessments among 15-year-olds in developed countries, and an embarrassing 25th for high school math.”

How is this a good thing?

Statistics tell us that a third of the students enrolled in school drop out. Half of those who remain go on to graduate without the skills for college or a decent job.

How is this a good thing?

Those involved in the presidential campaign have yet to make improving secondary education one of their major issues.